A launcher that launches a launcher that launches a launcher and then that launcher needs to update to launch a launcher that needs an update to launch the game but wait i need to login to the launcher to launch the launcher that i also need to login to to launch lauanahchhcha a dhsnhennamebrbjfbnsnsbr.
Piracy is jsut objectively better. Well unless you need game patches then its painful.
Paradox launchers are the worst. It takes them twice as long to boot up as the actual game does.
has anyone made a parody game where the whole thing is just an endless sequence of launchers? It sounds like it should be a thing
We’ve been spoiled by Steam being generally pretty good and creating a brief pax where everything in the PC market was nice and standardized.
Now, we’re seeing a bit of a return to the days where every company had to push their own proprietary bullshit along with their games.
Not to sound like a complete gamer chode but I refuse to get those free Epic games simply because I don’t want to install more store frontends. Fuck off, I didn’t install Origin and I won’t install this either. Microsoft and their Game Pass can suck a fat one too
Steam, GOG’s old school no strings attached installers + piracy are enough for me. Activision had the gumption to tie Crash Bandicoot 4 to the Overwatch/WoW launcher on PC. No thanks, I’ll just go with FitGirl instead :data-laughing:
I grab every single free epic game I have then play almost none of them. I have like over 100 games on epic that I never play. I never put a credit card into the epic store.
It’s weird, I’m so much less likely to play a game if I get it for free, subnautica being the only real exception.
Sometimes Epic gives away decent multiplayer games you can’t pirate, DeadByDaylight, Battlefront 2, Among Us, Arc, Elite Dangerous, GTAV, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Rising Storm Vietnam, xcom 2
Otherwise, they’ve given away at least a dozen or so single player games worth a play.
I also refuse to download Epic. At least if a game’s exe launches its own launcher I’m still managing it via Steam - I really don’t want to have multiple lists of the games I own and have to keep multiple launchers running that hog my computer’s resources. I still really want to play FF7 Remake but I won’t touch it until it’s on Steam.
I don’t understand this one because it’s not like when streaming services fractured and you have to pay for each one. It’s all free shit to me with the minor inconvenience of a different login.
Incidentally they also treat devs way better than Valve does. If there’s no way to buy direct from the devs then they’ll get a bigger cut from Epic store sales than Steam sales.
I made this post waiting for a game to start
